Singapore math question

[madteaparty]

Apologies if this sounds dense--we just completed the 1A **workbook**. I did not bother getting the textbook for this one and we did not miss it. (we used to read the problems to DS, now he reads them himself and fills in the answer--pretty straighforward). I discovered I have both the textbook and the workbook for 1B. How does this work, exactly? I give him a little lesson from the textbook, have him do the texbook problems (in a separate sheet?) and then on to the workbook for more problems of that kind? Many Thanks!

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Hi, madteaparty! My kids are supposed to be doing language arts, but have morphed into a herd of prehistoric raptors (they're obsessed with all things prehistoric right now). So, I have a sec to answer your question.

 

We use Singapore Math. 1A is very simple - that's why you didn't need the textbook. It gets harder in 1B. I think we basically skipped 1A with the now-3rd grader (she's starting 3a soon).

 

So, anyway, you would buy the Textbook (which looks like a workbook) and the Workbook. If you want, you can buy the Intensive Practice workbook, also - but you might not need this until about 2a-2b - and maybe not even then. The IP workbook questions take the workbook a step further and some of them are very difficult to answer.

 

Start off with your lesson in the Textbook. There should be a small arrow on the margin of the page that says: Workbook Exercise 23 or something similar. That's when you stop where you are in the Textbook and complete Exercise 23 in the Workbook. I usually do not have my kids do more than 1 Exercise a day. We will read through the Textbook until we reach an Exercise, stop and complete the Workbook Exercise.

 

Also, at the end of each chapter in the Textbook should be a Review A and Review B. You could turn these into quizzes or tests. I make my kids do both Reviews.

 

I hope that answered your questions. Good luck!

[Dmmetler]

We did a 3 step cycle for the new stuff-day 1-introduce topic with manipulatives (using the textbook to get problems). Day 2-do textbook orally/mentally. If DD is confident, Day 3-do workbook independently. We had some on each step each day, and would repeat a step with different problems if needed. If she was really confident in a step, we would do step 1 and 2 on the same day, but always did the written part later. We also had a mental math card from the HIG which I carried around with me and we did while waiting.

[Closeacademy]

This is what we do:

 

textbook--read the material and work out the problems together

workbook--she does the work in it.

[madteaparty]

Many thanks, everyone! Appreciate it. :)

[Crimson Wife]

You will definitely want the textbook for the higher levels. There are arrows in the text indicating where you would have your student go do the workbook.

 

With my oldest, I am personally using the Intensive Practice book in lieu of the regular workbook. I have her work through the textbook chapter, then do the corresponding IP and Challenging Word Problems chapters.

 

With certain topics, I do have her work through the Math Mammoth single-topic "blue" worktext prior to Singapore. The reason is that Maria Miller does a much better job walking the student through the concepts step-by-step-by-step rather than making the conceptual leaps that Singapore does. So far, I've only needed to do that for 3A chapter 3 (multi-digit multiplication and long division) and 3B chapter 6 (fractions). She's currently finishing up 3B and will start 4A some time this fall.

[madteaparty]

Which Intensive Practice and Challenging Word Problems you use? I don't think there is one per level (we are at 1B now), but I'm off to rainbow resources to check. Many Thanks!

[Crimson Wife]

There is an IP book for each level and one CWP book per grade. They are aligned to the US edition rather the Stds. edition but I've heard that it's easy to use them with the latter (I'm switching over to the SE at 4A so we'll have to see how true that is).

[madteaparty]

Thanks again. Looks like I need to place another order. As well as research differences between the US and Standards editions. I belive in the lower grades the US materials is all that's available, anyway.

[Crimson Wife]

This scope & sequence is a useful chart in highlighting the differences between the US Ed. & the Stds. Ed. Most of the differences are in the 4th-6th grade books.

 

The HIG for the SE only goes up through 4B at the moment and 5A will be published this fall. By the time someone currently in 1B would need them, I would presume the complete series would be available.

[twoxcell]

I'm not using the textbook for 1a either but for my ds who is doing 2a I go through the textbook with him and have him do it in his head. Once in awhile he needs to write something on a seperate sheet, then he does the workbook pages.

[Alessandra]

We just go over the textbook and do the problems orally, skipping parts if ds knows the material. Then on to the workbook. We have done it this way for 4 years now, because ds is good in math.

 

For dd (not a mathy person), I remember making the manipulatives suggested in the IG and going over the text slowly before attempting the workbook.